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Many are familiar with the Three C’s of diamond buying: color, clarity and cut. For a quick review diamonds are graded for color from white to yellow starting with D as the highest or whitest color.  Vintage Diamond Engagement Ring Color I-J White diamonds are often also grouped further. They are termed in the following way: Colorless: (or whitest) if they merit a D, E or F color. Near Colorless: Colors G, H I and J. Faint Color: Colors K, L and M. Very Light Yellow: N through R colors. Below an R they move into the fancy yellow diamond...

Maker & Muse is the poetic title of the current exhibition at the Driehaus Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Focused entirely on twentieth-century art jewelry, the show includes some impressive and spectacular pieces. From Louis Comfort Tiffany in the US to Wiener Werkstätte for the Jugendstil movement (German and Austrian works of the Art Nouveau), the museum offers some heart-fluttering works of art for the body. Now through January of 2016.  Image courtesy of the Driehaus Museum.  Images from left to right: Frederick James Partridge (English, 1877-1942) for Liberty & Co. (English, established 1875), Tiara with Corn Design, c. 1900. Collection of Richard H....